Take a look at Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox in Alex Cross

I’m a huge James Patterson fan and I love the Alex Cross novels. The first images out for the movie adaptation look pretty cool, but one casting choice concerns me.

Tyler Perry might be going for the laughs in Madea’s Witness Protection but he’s dealing with serious business as the title character in Alex Cross, based on Patterson’s I, Alex Cross. When it comes to Cross, it’s all about the acting so I’m going to have to at least see a trailer to decide if Perry is up for it. If he does well, I might even be able to get over the fact that Idris Elba doesn’t have the part as originally planned.

Matthew Fox looks totally insane as the villain so there are no worries there, but I’m not entirely thrilled with Edward Burns as Cross’ partner, Tommy Kane. People that are new to the world of Alex Cross probably won’t think twice about it but Patterson fans like myself will wonder where man-mountain John Sampson is. It’s a drastic change with no reasoning and I’m not thrilled with the switch at all.

I’ll reserve judgment until a trailer hits but with Elba out of the lead role and Sampson erased from the story, Alex Cross already has two strikes against it, in my opinion. The movie opens on October 26.